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Review of Telemann St Matthew Passion

Telemann St Matthew Passion

Telemann wrote a new (or virtually new) biblical Passion setting every year during his tenure as musical director at Hamburg‚...

Reviewed in issue 11/2001

Review of Mahler Symphony 4 & Berg 7 Early Songs

Mahler Symphony 4 & Berg 7 Early Songs

When these performers launched the Concertgebouw's current season with Mahler's Fourth, it was only to be expected that Decca would...

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 4/2000

Review of Kodály Te Deum & Missa brevis

Kodály Te Deum & Missa brevis

On first hearing this issue on LP in 1971, Alec Robertson felt convinced that ''performances and recordings as good as...

Reviewed by Lionel Salter in issue: 6/1987

Review of Beethoven Symphony No 9

Beethoven Symphony No 9

I suppose it is true, as Voltaire somewhat obliquely remarked, that the best is the enemy of the good. Certainly...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 3/1991

Review of Mozart Chamber Music for Wind and Strings

Mozart Chamber Music for Wind and Strings

The difference in substance between these three chamber works – each designed to display the special skills of the wind...

Reviewed in issue 11/1996

Review of Healey Willan Masses and Motets

Healey Willan Masses and Motets

A gentle beauty holds sway throughout this recital, and though that may not sound like a reproach it does constitute...

Reviewed in issue 2/1997

Review of Elgar & Walton Violin Sonatas

Elgar & Walton Violin Sonatas

It is good to find so responsive a young violinist as Daniel Hope turning to British music. As with his...

Reviewed by Edward Greenfield in issue: 3/2001

Review of Caldara Missa Dolorosa. Stabat Mater

Caldara Missa Dolorosa. Stabat Mater

Although the paragraph on the rear of the disc proclaims Caldara’s Stabat mater to be ‘a major score of the...

Reviewed by Jonathan Freeman-Attwood in issue: 1/2001

Review of Lalo Symphonie Espagnole

Lalo Symphonie Espagnole

Howard Zhang, born in Shanghai and brought up in the US, was only 16 or 17 when this CD was...

Reviewed by DuncanDruce in issue: 10/2003

Review of Poulenc: Choral and Orchestral Works

Poulenc: Choral and Orchestral Works

Poulenc's Organ Concerto was written in 1938, not long after the death of a close friend in a car accident...

Reviewed by Christopher Headington in issue: 7/1990


 

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